Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , but one of them I 'll sign in your presence Maisie and her twenty year old son , not hundred per cent happy about it , I 'd prefer older people cos youngest like that are inclined try to put their music on a bit loud or invite their friends in when mum 's away , you know , and . |
| 2 | Profoundly deaf pupils will almost certainly need modification of the speaking and listening component , especially if they were born deaf or lost their hearing before acquiring language . |
| 3 | We do not wish to perform poorly or to undercut our objectives . |
| 4 | Does being brave mean being strong or overcoming our fears ? |
| 5 | … neither suffer them through negligence to mould and be moth-eaten or want their strings and covers . |
| 6 | either that or banging his head on the wall ! |
| 7 | It was that or see his own dream die . |
| 8 | The men were too busy working or having their enjoyment , or in bed — that 's been life ! |
| 9 | Mrs O'Brien here at her home in Slough , was told by her husband that the loan back in nineteen eighty seven was only for sixty thousand pounds , the bank did n't correct this or give her independent advice . |
| 10 | The restoration of the monarchy and its patronage proved a particularly valuable source of wealth and position to those who had remained faithful or changed their allegiance with a careful eye to the future . |
| 11 | Obviously most of them had them marked or had their name on them , so that they would have the same er the same set of tools every day . |
| 12 | But Charlotte , Emily and Anne Brontë did not live to grow old or to enjoy their fame . |
| 13 | In short , related to a factual statement is a certain belief of which both those who utter it and those who assent to it express or exhibit their acceptance . |
| 14 | It was the thought of this that had her standing up after about half an hour in preparation to go to her room . |
| 15 | It is this that gives my soul all its joyous elation , |
| 16 | But the white paper makes clear that expanding its market will depend on success by the Scottish generators in exporting power to England , Wales and Northern Ireland . |
| 17 | Tossing this first layer of skin aside , he attempted to burrow deeper , only to discover yet more skin , though whether this was the outer skin that had slithered back through his advancing fingers , or a whole new layer was not apparent , but it was pretty clear that finding her windpipe , let alone getting hands round it and squeezing it , was a two-person job . |
| 18 | ‘ More interesting than sharing your schemes and plans with the board of Chester 's , I expect . ’ |
| 19 | There are few experiences more exciting than starting your own business . |
| 20 | But it looks much quicker than re-tracing our steps . ’ |
| 21 | And now it was n't the threat of being lasered in half that knotted her stomach : it was the inevitability of the sense of failure , of letting down her team , that would follow a muffed throw . |
| 22 | This abandonment of both the major innovations made by the descendants of Eusthenopteron during their colonisation of the land occurs not only among those salamanders that have taken to water but even among some that spend their lives almost entirely on land . |
| 23 | What would be easier than withdrawing their overseas investments , something that would decimate our markets ? |
| 24 | I decide to change , it 's easier than painting my nails again . |
| 25 | To come up with the right emotions for the President of the World , though hard work , was still so much easier than identifying her own . |
| 26 | Laverne looks over my shoulder at the clouds , because it is easier than confronting his own oozing paint . |
| 27 | It was not merely the weather that made the Decoy Lodge feel gloomier , more shadowy than Louisa remembered , not merely the damp that left her bones so chill . |
| 28 | BAIE SCOTLAND believes there is no sounder way to begin 1993 than to concentrate your post-Hogmanay mind on I.P. , an issues of increasing professional importance … so sign up without delay ! |
| 29 | Charles White , the celebrated Manchester surgeon , was born in 1728 and received his anatomical training in London at William Hunter 's academy in 1748 . |
| 30 | So we just ask that these come forward so that the Council can fully discuss this and make our replies to before they 're formally adopted ? |